A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.